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PROPPING
Jez Lowe, on "The Parish Notices," 1998

INTRO

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            G
  There's a big brown photograph I bet you've seen
           D                C
  Of young men propping up walls
  G
  Hanging in the bank by a cash machine
      D                  C
  And women in boots and shawls
           D                          Em
  It's the same street back a hundred years or so
         C                  Em7
  People nothing to do, and nowhere to go
      G                         D
  But hang around and watch the world turn
              Em7
  Propping up walls

Looking down on me from a day gone by
Yong men propping up walls
Caught in the clicking of a dead man's eye
Women in boots and shawls
As I paid in wages from a job down south
I just came home to feed the family mouth
And hang around and watch the world turn
Propping up walls

CHORUS

 C
  Young men propping up walls
  G
  Women in boots and shawls
  Em                       D
  Tomorrow's only what the past dragged in
                                    Em7
  And how the penny of the rich man falls

I came out side, what did I see
Young men propping up walls
And some of them young 'uns looking older than me
And women in boots and shawls
Bricks and mortar from a bygone year
The one support you're gone get 'round here
So hang around and watch the world turn
Propping up walls

CHORUS

By the supermarket rocking wide-eyed kids
Yong men propping up walls
And counting pennies on the bean can lids
Women in boots and shawls
Feed your kids up to be big and strong
'Cos their time's coming and it won't be long
To hang around and watch the world turn
Propping up walls

CHORUS

And I dreamed a night with a pale brown tint
Yong men propping up walls
They've turned this town into a sepia print
With women in boots and shawls
Promise's promise is a real routine
Anyone'll tell you what the next day means
Hanging around and watch the world turn
Propping up walls

CHORUS 2X

OUTRO

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Jez Lowe- vocals, guitar, mandolin
Billy Surgeoner- fiddle
Jez Luton- double bass, vocals
Judy Dinning- percussion , vocals

Copyright Lowe Life Music

source: Chris Ashley